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this receive earnest attention. For the
enlargement of the work, increased appropriations
have been made for the current
year; and drouth conditions will
cut down the income from a few of our
churches. Our treasurer has informed
me that the offerings in June were small.
August is a month of vacations, and it
will be easy to let 'this matter pass unnoticed.
Don't do that, Brethren. This
is your work, and by a little forgetfulness
you may cause serious embarrassment.
But a proper effort on the part
of all will enable us to meet all obligations
without enbarrassment. Send offerings
to the treasurer of the Home
Missions Committee, Mr. J. E. Morrison,
Graham, Texas.
F. T. Charlton,
Chairman H. M. Committee.
Kilgore: Rev. J. A. Williams writes:
"On July 5, I assisted Rev. A. L. Whitfield
in a meeting at Kilgore. One unusual
feature of the meeting was that
the attendance of men and boys at the
morning service was just about as large
as the attendance of .women and girls.
Seven confessed Christ, six of whom
joined the Presbyterian Church. The
name of the church at Kilgore is .Dan_ville
Church. Long , before there was a
railroad or a town, a Presbyterian
Church was built three miles from the
present site of Kilgore, and named New
Danville', for Danville, Ky., because some
of the members were from Danville, Ky.
Wht?n the International and Great Northern
railroad was projected a station was
named Kilgore in honor of clo t! '.he
residents of the town, Congressman
Buck Kilgore, who, by the way, was a
Presbyterian elder. There is but one organization
for Kilgore and Danville, but
the pastor preaches at both places.
Whon wo nlnaorl fho moot i iter in initrnro
we at once began one at Danville. The
attendance and interest was excellent.
Nine confessed Christ, six of. whom joined
the Presbyterian Church; the other
three are to join other caurches. While
visiting in the Danville community the
pastor and I were entertained in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Melton, Presbyterians
from Columbia, S. C. Here I
drank from a cup and saucer which were
given to Mrs. Melton long ago by Dr.
and Mrs. J. L. Girardeau, of Columbia,
She treasures them highly and uses them
only upon special occasions. Mr. Melton
is a very active worker in the
church. The pioneers of Presbyterianism
in Texas have preached for this organi
gation, Daniel Baker and Dr. Marshall
and Dr. Wiggins. I stood in the room
in the old home of Congressman Kilgore,
wnere Dr. Wiggins was ordained. These
men have gone to their reward. They '
being dead, yet spoak, and their works
do follow them."
VIRGINIA.
Boh Air: Dr. T. M. Lowry, of Knoxville
Tenn., is preaching to this congregation
during tne present ween, preparatory to
the communion service to be held on the
following Sabbath.
, Lexington: Rev. Dr. W. R. Laird, of
Danville, filled the pulpit of this church
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Sunday morning, July 25. Dr. Graham
was assisted by Dr. L. B. Turnbfill at the
sunset services held on the parsonage
lawn.
Farmville: The Rev. Wm. E. Hill, of
Gadsden, Ala., has accepted the call of
the Presbyterian church here, made vacant
by the Rev. H. Tucker Graham becoming
the president of Hamden-Sidney
College.
Falling Spring: It is this church and
not Tinkling Spring, as stated last week,
which has called Mr. W. Twynian Williams
of the last senior class of Union
Seminary.
Windy Cove: Sabbath, July 25, was
our communion occasion. The day was
fine and the church was nacked to its
doors. The Lord was certainly with us.
Four gave themselves to Christ, one i?ie
head of a family and three young girls.
The Lord of the Harvest is waiting for
others. May their delay not be too long.
J. A. T.
First Church, Norfolk: In our notice,
last week, of the life of that noble ruling
elder, Rudolph S. Cohn, there was an
error. The item should have read that
on November 10, 1889, "the congregation
of the First Church elected him a ruling
elder and on November 17th he was installed
in that office. He had previously
been an elder in the Manokin Presbyterian
church, in New Castle Presbytery,
U. S. A."
Newport News: The pastor of the First
Church, Rev. E. T. Wellford, is spending
his vacation in the beautiful old
county of Gloucester. Rev. M. B. Porter,
of Richmond, Rev. F. W. T. Pitman, of
Williamsburg, Rev. W. H. T. Squires,
and Rev. F. A. Brown, of Norfolk, are
announced as pulpit supplies in his absence.
At the Sunday night service before
he leit Mr. Wellford reviewed the
work of the First Church during t^e
last eleven montns and reported that
despite the hard times, the financial condition
of the church was never better,
more given to systematic beneficence
than the previous year and the unbroken
record of the pastorate?an addition a
Sabbath,?again maintained, also that the
evening congregations had increased until
they were averaging more than the
morning attendance. Mr. Welltord will
be absent until the first of September.
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wimvii ub11 11to j nibiimunU) Virginia,
and Princeton Seminary in New Jersey,
the largest Seminaries of their respective
branches of the Church to which they
belong, fan neck and neck in the matter
of matriculates last year, the two institutions
having exactly the same number
in the Junior Class. Prom present indications
Union Seminary is likely to have
a still larger increase of attendance this
year. The registrar reports a larger number
of applicants for rooms than ever be,
fore at this stage of the summer.
Fortunately the erection of the new
and spacious Richmond Hall, which has
been recently finished and furnished, and
is now ready for occupancy, relieves all
apprehension about accommodating these
increasing numbers. Last year the accommodations
were taxed to the limit,
but apparently there will be ample room
for any Increase which is likely at least
for the next few years.
Miss M. S. Young, a lady of long e*pe
H. August 4, 1909.
rience and large success in hotel management,
will have charge of the refectory
during the coming session.
Rev. R. II. McCaslin, a recent graduate
of the Seminary, now pastor at Bowling
Green, Kv., preached in the Ginter Pant
church on Sunday, July 25.
Warm Springs: The happy closing of
a long and happy pastorate. In 1887 the
Rev. Wm. C. White was ordained and installed
pastor of the Warm Springs
Presbyterian Church and that pastorate
has continued with a kind and hospitable
people ever since. There were sev
enty-one members then, and three hundred
have been added since and today
there are one hundred and seventy-three
members. So the pastor has the pleasure
of leaving a permanent membership |
of over one hundred more than it had
at the beginning of the pastorate. Then,
four elders and two deacons, now six elders
and seven deacons. The Ladies'
Missionary Society, The Little Gleaners,
(girls), and the Covenanters, (boys),
have all been organized and are doing
good work. Before closing the pastor
wished to hold sacramental services at
the home church and three chapels and
preach at three other places to which
he has ministered. As a result of these
meetings and in the first quarter of the
new year twenty-five have been added,
eighteen infants and ten adults baptized.
Last year, one of the best reports we
have had, twenty-four were added. The
pasior nas married two hundred and
ninety couples, and buried about two
hundred and fifty persons. In the field
as served by him in 1887 there are now
three pastors, Rev. J. Gray McAllister,
D.D., Rev. L. E. Scott and himself. Mr.
White has had the pleasure of overseeing
the erection of three churches apd
starting another (since finished) and two
chapels and another chapel ready to be
purchased, and the home Church remodeled
at an expense of about $3,500, and a
manse rebuilt, a total increase of value
of property of probably $12,000 or $14,000.
There is a peculiar coincidence in the
pastorates of this pastor, his father and
his father-in-law. Rev. Charles White,
D.D., was pastor at Berryville twentytwo
years and Rev. Geo. W. Pinley, D.D.,
was pastor at Romney twenty-two years
and he has (June 20) closed his twentytwo
year pastorate.
PERSONALS.
Rev. R. P. Walker changes his address
from Stanford, Tex., to Hillsboro, Tex.,
having accepted a call to the First
Church. ?
Rev. A. D. McClure, of Wilmington, N.
C., will spend his vacation during the
month of August at Brevard and Montreat,
N. C.
Rev. R. W. Joplin changes his address
for the month t)f August from Red *
Springs, to Crockett Springs, N. C.
Rev. John Van Lear, of Tuscaloosa,
Ala., is spending his vacation at Monteagle,
Tenn.
Rev. Wm. Durham changes his address
from McRae, Ga., to Wynne, Ark.
Rev. M. C. Taylor, of Calvert, Tex.,